Is Kenny really the King?

If you’d ask the majority of Liverpool fans this question I imagine they would look at you with a face of bemusement, confusion and slight hilarity given the possibility that, to them, this is like asking if Michael Owen is a traitor.

This highlights the idiotic blind loyalty that the hardcore Liverpool fans have for their beloved club. The good side of it is a home game at Anfield in Europe with the whole Kop in full song getting right behind their team. The ugly side of this loyalty has been seen on t-shirts worn by players and fans, scarves pledging loyalty to one Luis Suarez and also one moronic cretin of a fan who racially abused Tom Adeyemi of Oldham and is not being charged. I’m not saying he did so because Luis Suarez abused Patrice Evra but that the clubs support of him might have allowed this idiot with his warped view of the world, to think it OK.

Obviously Kenny Dalglish cannot be blamed for Luis Suarez’s actions but for the King to support and back him all the way when the evidence is against him is more than brave, it’s stupid and gives the idea that Kenny has fallen behind in regards to the beautiful game and is no more than a great memory.

Kenny Dalglish has apologised along with Suarez for the game against Manchester United at Old Trafford but the events of that day will stick in the memory of the lifeblood of any team, the fans.

Kenny’s statement at the end of the game was one of pure ignorance. He said that he didn’t see the handshake incident but in an age when you can find out the final score of Rennes vs Auxerre via a mobile phone in less than five minutes makes it hard to believe.

I do believe however that a manager’s ability should be based on his performances on the pitch and the points he gains to get his team a deserved league position. It seems however that Kenny disagrees: “There are many ways you can judge a season and the best way is progress at the football club as a whole. I don’t think it necessarily relates to trophies or points. “

After the optimism of Kenny’s arrival has faded the stark reality at Liverpool is worrying to say the least. They have managed 5 points in the league so far this year, have a points average in 2012 of 0.6 per game, they lie 7th in the league 13 points away from Champions League qualification and all this after spending £115 million in the summer not to mention the Andy Carrol conundrum.

All this can be exemplified by their latest “performance” against Sunderland. It can be said that under Martin O’Neil Sunderland have looked a brilliant side to watch and are reminiscent of the football O’Neil had Aston Villa playing when the likes of Ashley Young, Stewart Downing and Gareth Barry were there but this was a Sunderland desperately low on players following the suspension of the talismanic Stephane Sessegnon and the one man fouling machine that is Lee Catermole. To make things worse the man that scored the winner was none other than self-professed world beater Nichols Bendtner. Not only that but one of last season’s best performers in the Premier League, Charlie Adam, had yet another shocker. He fouled left, he fouled right and he fouled centre and to top it off he didn’t look bothered.

With this in mind maybe Liverpool should sack Kenny Dalglish and hire Ian Holloway, imagine watching Luis Suarez trying to understand those instructions.

If these results were happening under any other manager, say for example Roy Hodgson, the Kop and the fans wouldn’t stand for it but because it’s King Kenny he hides behind a laboured Carling Cup victory over a team in the league below that they had to take to penalties and, bizarrely, a new kit deal.

This evening is one of the biggest derbies in Britain at Anfield between two teams separated by two points. If Liverpool win it could change their season and they can at least challenge for Europa league spot or Kenny will suffer the same fate Gary Megson suffered after his old team won a passionate derby game. No I don’t think that’ll happen either.

We will be seeing one of the best managers Scotland and the Premier League have to offer in the context of the modern game, David Moyes. If Everton can win and go ahead of their rivals and they can somehow get just a bit more money to spend, we may see a shift in the tide by the river Mersey.

you need to look at yourself then read the fa report if the proof in that was against one of your family or friends would you still think it was ok,if you say you would then im calling you a liar the problem with idiots like you is you havnt read it, im proud to stand as a liverpool fan am proud kenny stood behind him and best of all its idiots like you and the fa who discriminate against suarez and then write shite to try and back yourselves up.

Think you need to calm down a bit. I admire your passion for your club but my family and friends have nothing to do with this and this whole idea of conspiracy theories and discrimination? I love football but all sport and media are meant to be pleasant distractions from life.

Don’t waste your time Ken – you are trying to get through to a MU supporter in case you didn’t know.
The paragraph he “may” have read of the report bored him so he went back to writing about it and will support judgment on the grounds of peanuts because it suits his bias.
Suarez was stitched up, no doubts there. The F.A. wanting to snatch the opportunity to make a statement even if making a laughing stock out of our concept of justice regardless.
We all know it except MU supporters.
Evra can hang his head in shame wherever he goes now for being an angry and evil little, little, very little man.

Well done Hernan you just made me piss myself after reading your comment.
Why do you assume I support Man U? I don’t I support Sheffield Wednesday a team that has gone through shite for the majority of the time I have supported them and I have stuck by them.
If anything you have proved my point about ignorant Liverpool fans, the Fa’s report was damning in its condemnation of Suarez and it is a very VERY detailed report. Yet you still won’t accept that he made a mistake and neither did he when he refused to shake Evra’s hand.
If you wanna tell me how the Fa stitched it up for Suarez please do I’d love another laugh like the one you just gave me.

I do believe the time has come for a dispassionate debate on the matter of Kenny’s stewardship of our team. As well as the management of the Suarez incidents, there is also the issue of our underperforming transfer purchases, the use of substitutes, the ignoring of Sterling/Morgan etc.

The quality of our recent performances against Arsenal & Manchester City show so much promise, and yet the Sunderland and Bolton games, as well as all the home draws are very disappointing. Alan Hansen called us “The Nearly Team”.

Tom, do you believe Liverpool can close the gap and maybe finish the season in fifth place, and would you say that’s not good enough for a team like Liverpool? Would a sixth place finish be considered a disaster given the quality of teams higher than them?

Every one of the teams outside of the current top 3 have had inconsistent seasons, Liverpool included. Only Arsenal have sorted out their inconsistency in recent games, and have probably now secured Champions League next season – otherwise Liverpool would still have been in top four race ahead of the derby tonight.

As it is Liverpool already have Europa League in the bag (having won the League Cup) so there’s nothing more they can gain in that respect from pushing for as high as possible between now and the end of the season. But based on the league table their situation could be a lot worse, and at least they have a manager who isn’t busy looking over his shoulder at the next job and will continue to be around if he get’s the chance to be. If he has the fans on side then why shouldn’t he stay there for many years to come?

I agree with you in regards to having the fans on his side but you do need more than that to manage a football club. I’m not saying get rid of him but merely he has made quite a few mistakes this season and many things need to be addressed if you are to challenge for a top four position, where you belong given you wonderful history.
Also after the millions you spent in the summer I think its safe to say your squad has the potential to be better than Chelsea and you have invested way more than Arsenal except they got the one thing you need, a world class goal scorer.

Liverpool do not need to challenge for a Europa League spot as they already qualify as Carling Cup Holders.
The Champions League is beyond them with or without Kenny this season.
As far as his blind defence of Suarez goes well… Suarez saying the prospect of playing for PSG appeals to him is shows the kind of person Luis Suarez really is and also shows how ill advised or misguided Dalglish and the LFC board acted in this matter.

You’re totally right their in the Europa League, my bad dude.
Also Suarez words were taken out of context, I can’t remember exactly what he said but if you listen to the guardian podcast they tell you on there.

It’s funny how Liverpool fans call everybody else idiots! Methinks the king is in his altogether – if Liverpool fans understand. You have been useless this year – you bought useless players except Suarez – and you’re going nowhere.